one of the assholes currently working to force my husband and me out of our home is a big bernie sanders supporter. i can't even stick to the "they're misguided but ultimately have good progressive values" line with bernie brats anymore.
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Update from earlier today:
You want people to completely ignore that he broke the rail strike based on this completely symbolic gesture? Wtf is the most powerful man in the world even doing at a protest he can sign their demands into an executive order.
Does trudeau marching in this climate protest undo the material consequences of his support for the dakota access pipeline or quarrying in third world countries? Get fucking real.
Yeah uh, I'm just going to note for the eight thousandth time, that Biden continued to work with the railway workers for months afterward and successfully obtained their sick days, for which the union bosses explicitly gave him credit. Since I know clicking on links can be difficult, here's the quote, from June 20, 2023:
This is a big deal, said Railroad Department Director Al Russo, because the paid-sick-days issue, which nearly caused a nationwide shutdown of freight rail just before Christmas, had consistently been rejected by the carriers. It was not part of last December’s congressionally implemented update of the national collective bargaining agreement between the freight lines and the IBEW and 11 other railroad-related unions. “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers. “We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”
Also, I'm sorry: you actually believe that the US president can single-handedly change multiple enormous private corporation/industries/American capitalism's entire pay structure at any time he wants by signing one (1) executive order, and I am the one that needs to get real?
(I'd say I'm surprised, but I'm not.)
Strikes aren't the only way to force corporations to negotiate with unions. Stopping a strike doesn't mean abandoning the union and the workers.
i've been using this site so little that i now have absolutely no idea what anything is. and also single women seem to really want to chat with me now.
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"SURVIVING"
Oh this isnt normal, huh
First time posting my knitting to tumblr. Look at my Bug Son
He's just a baby boy...!
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Vice President Kamala Harris announced this week that the Biden administration is looking to lessen the burden medical debt has on people by purging it from their credit report. This means that even if people have piles of medical debt — one in five Americans say they do — it’s not going to affect their ability to get a mortgage or a car loan. So they will at least have a place to rest their head and a car they can drive to work every day while paying off their medical bills.
Via AP:
Harris said that would make it easier for them to obtain an auto loan or a home mortgage. Roughly one in five people report having medical debt. The vice president said the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is beginning the rulemaking process to make the change. The agency said in a statement that including medical debt in credit scores is problematic because “mistakes and inaccuracies in medical billing are common.” “Access to health care should be a right and not a privilege,” Harris told reporters in call to preview the action. “These measures will improve the credit scores of millions of Americans so that they will better be able to invest in their future.”
It only seems fair that high medical bills for an emergency or serious illness shouldn’t affect one’s credit rating anyway. It’s not like we’re talking about someone irresponsibly dropping several grand at Versace and then never paying off the credit card bill. Fifty-seven percent of Americans could not afford a surprise $1000 emergency, so the inability to pay off massive amounts of medical debt is hardly a fair reflection of an inclination to default on normal payments — payments you can budget for — on something like a mortgage or auto loan. “Way to be irresponsible by getting cancer, lady! You should definitely be punished for that by not being able to find any place to live!” seems pretty harsh, no?
here's a more direct link to associated press. the primary source
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- An aggressively quilted couch
- Vintage dolls
- An educational pamphlet about Pacific lampreys
- It's about quilting, I swear
Austin, TX
US fish and wildlife service: ok so the thing about this animal is, it doesn't have a lower jaw.
artist: ok
US fish and wildlife service: in fact it so doesn't have a lower jaw that its latin name is agnatha, which means no jaw.
artist: ok
US fish and wildlife service: so we need you to draw it smiling
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whenever i watch red letter media videos, my husband puts on his headphones because he can’t stand rich’s laugh. he says it’s worse than ricky gervais.
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I'm sorry but I didn't see any reblogs with the follow-up and it's SO good
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terfs be like i’m joining the fight against restrictive gender roles on the side of the restrictive gender roles
we did it patrick we saved the city
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here is the issue i have with a big-tent, anybody-can-join trans “umbrella”:
i have no way to explain to someone who lives and presents entirely as their assigned sex, but identifies as nonbinary, that my being misgendered endangers my physical safety in a way that it doesn’t for them. that being misgendered doesn’t just ruin my day because it’s disrespectful and embarassing, but also because it reminds me of how vulnerable i am to actual physical violence. and being thus reminded 5+ times a day eats away at your mental health.
because anything i try to bring up, this person can (and did) counter with “well i’m trans too, i get misgendered too, i know how much it sucks, but you’re still just gonna have to deal with it.”
also, they have no difficulty in being seen as gay! they can enter gay spaces and lean on the gay community and find support and friendship there. i look and sound straight. i’m always going to be met with suspicion. most gay men (that i’ve met) are trans inclusive and wouldn’t run me off after they learn that i identify as a man, but that initial suspicion is always going to be there and as socially r*tarded as i am, i can still pick up on it.
i’m not going to tell this nonbinary person that they’re actually cis or anything like that, because that’s shitty, but i wish it were permissable to acknowledge how incredibly different our experiences are.
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Do you know how hard it is to live with a cat that has the intelligence level of literally like a 3 year old but the pure chaos of a high ranking demon?
He’s learned to open the lazy Susan and won’t stop clawing open the flour and rolling in it like a little chinchilla
Criminal charges
Hey hey hey HEY
He’s been CRAWLING INTO THE BOTTOM CABINETS to TEAR OPEN THE INSTANT POTATOES and EAT BAGS AND BAGS OF THEM I’m livid but also impressed.
Do you have anything with that kind of texture that he can safely play with? This sounds like an understimulation issue.
He’s not playing with it
He’s eating it.
I can tell because the bags are nearly empty except for a few small clumps.
I knew he loves mashed potatoes. I just didn’t know the extent he’d go to to get them.
We had him tested and in the course of that vet visit he stole
6 tips
3 of the ear light cover things
Our other cats collar
the ear bud of the vets stethoscope 
several hearts
a plastic glove
the vet techs hair tie
Also yeah he’s fine he just likes to steal
Not guilty by reason of deficiency of other people’s stuff
This is his ledge
His ledge is taller then my husband who is 6’2”
I am 5’5”
I have to get the step ladder out once a week and see what Orange Sherbert has taken to his ledge for safe keeping. It’s usually the remote.
Narratively speaking, ending this saga with the reveal that his name is Orange Sherbert was a masterstroke.
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why is it so impossible for mlm/nblm to have a flag or something to call ourselves aside from like "gay man" or mlm/nblm. there's always a problem with whatever gets popular and identifiable, and I'm honestly juat craving that kind of language, but every attempt seems to fail. but i don't feel comfortable using any of it for a whole variety of reasons.
i could try looking at existing community terminology to satisfy some gay expression, but quite frankly idk where to turn. twink/bear/etc. terminology isn't really my thing. i've got femme down but i don't know enough about language to know the different idk more specific identities i can make out of it, that apply to me. i know there's more out there but, i dont know it lol
Vincian, Turian, Veldian, Floric, Lavenian and lavender boy are alternatives
none of these are widely used at the moment, though
if you are cis and you want to ‘splain to me about how the only way for trans people to get rights is to commit acts of interpersonal violence, please consider: don’t.
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"While feminist communities, including Janice Raymond, focused largely on transwomen in the late 1970s, the emergence of a more visible transmasculine community in the early 1990s forced feminist and lesbian-feminists to grapple with the boundaries of community and with shifting understandings of gender identity in relation to sexed bodies. Some feminists rejected transwomen on the basis of their male-sexed bodies, dismissing their feminine gender identity altogether. Transmasculine individuals were rejected for their masculine gender identity – an identity that feminists understood as the transmen’s rejection of their own female-sexed bodies and feminine identification. In other words, transwomen were rejected because of their sexed bodies and transmen were rejected based on their gender presentation, an inconsistency few feminists recognized. As Califia argued in Sex Changes, someone with “female chromosomes who lives as a man strikes at the heart of the notion that all women are sisters, potential feminists, natural allies against the… villainy [of men].” This misconception about transmen, however invalid, is used to justify feminist vilification of transmen, portraying them as traitors who buy into the temptation of masculine privilege and nothing more. This reduction of transmasculine desire not only erases the complexity of these desires, but it also perpetuates the assumption that to “pass” as men involves “forgetting one’s past or at least denying aspects of it that do not fit neatly with one’s gender of choice."